{"id":1500,"date":"2022-02-16T16:21:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grindersbasketball.net\/V2\/2022\/02\/16\/mid-season-stuff\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T16:21:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:21:19","slug":"mid-season-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/2022\/02\/16\/mid-season-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Season Stuff\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week\u2019s league beat writer told you fools no weekly review this week&#8230;.just some mid-season &#8220;awards&#8221;, praise, criticism, odds, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MVP (midseason):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Curtis &#8220;AD&#8221; Maisch<\/strong> &#8211; Curt leads Grinders in PPG, 3PG, and RPG, and for him, is shooting a blistering 39% from the field. Though his team&#8217;s wins might not match it, Curt is balling out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First Team All-Grinders (midseason)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>F\/G: <strong>Curtis Maisch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>F\/G: <strong>Mike Gersitz<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>F\/G: <strong>Justin Rybinski<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>F\/G: <strong>Jon Witt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve detailed Curt&#8217;s achievements. Mike leads Grinders in GAPE and is the best player on the league&#8217;s best team (and reigning\/defending). Justin has the third highest GAPE in the league (2nd highest, non-captain) and is averaging 18\/14 per game. He&#8217;s also the only player on his team over 5&#8217;7 and their team is hovering around .500. Witt makes the list as the best player on the league&#8217;s second best team. He&#8217;s averaging 17\/8\/5 and is often called on to &#8220;d up&#8221; each team&#8217;s best perimeter player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Outplaying their contract (midseason)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike G.<\/strong> GAPE of 28, cost of $18 &#8211; STEAL OF THE DRAFT (again)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zach Newberry<\/strong>: GAPE of 16, cost of $4 &#8211; defensive excellence, high motor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pauly J<\/strong>: GAPE of 17, cost of $7 &#8211; finding confidence, playing to skill finally<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ben Sears<\/strong>: GAPE of 11, cost of $7 &#8211; scoring is up this year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Underperforming their contract (midseason<\/strong>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wayne Haynes<\/strong>: GAPE of 13, cost of $23 &#8211; cleanup the missed layups<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jimmy Z<\/strong>.: GAPE of 13, cost of $32 &#8211; highest paid player in league history, gotta have more from ya<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike Ford<\/strong>: GAPE of 11, captain&#8217;s cost of $25 &#8211; show up and show out&#8230;.for once<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crazy Al<\/strong>: GAPE of 3, cost of $16 &#8211; just gotta sand the rust off<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mid-season odds to win the TITLE<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hi-liters<\/strong> &#8211; 3\/1: Still the champs. Only 1 loss. Great team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dadbod<\/strong> &#8211; 4.5\/1: Beat the champs. Only 1 loss. Great D. Meh O.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hoops<\/strong> &#8211; 9\/1: Great collection of telent. Need to put it together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stye-Eye<\/strong> &#8211; 15\/1: Comes down to the engagement of 1 player<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ken-Dolls<\/strong> &#8211; 18\/1: can Justin\/Jimmy (aka Malone\/Stockton) get hot for a run?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Richie&#8217;s Bad Beat<\/strong> &#8211; 55\/1: Ford&#8217;s checked out. Vaillancourt calls phantom shit. No team synergy. Playing out the string.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>League Leaders (midseason<\/strong>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PPG: Curt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RPG: Milicki<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>APG: Tommy\/Witt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SPG: Tirado<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BPG: Gersitz\/Justin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3PG: Curt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FG%: Gersitz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GAPE: Gersitz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Top Moments of the Year&#8230;&#8230;so far<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Richie&#8217;s tantrum at the draft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. E&#8217;s buzzer beater for OT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Foulancourt VS E and Milicki<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Signal app shaming of Cole as Butterbean<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Josh &#8216;Lil Josh blocks Richie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Old Man Jon buries jumper in Cole&#8217;s face, talks shit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. More and more people staying later and later at the bar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week\u2019s league beat writer told you fools no weekly review this week&#8230;.just some mid-season &#8220;awards&#8221;, praise, criticism, odds, etc. MVP (midseason): Curtis &#8220;AD&#8221; Maisch &#8211; Curt leads Grinders in PPG, 3PG, and RPG, and for him, is shooting a blistering 39% from the field. Though his team&#8217;s wins might not match it, Curt is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-captain-tenneal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinders.live\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}